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"The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you." ― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle If you want to get a brewer or beer distributor misty-eyed and nostalgic, ply him or

A new take on Baldwin by Kim McLarin, a slew of honors for local children’s publisher Candlewick, and a new book that thinks about what we eat, and why Nina MacLaughlin © LISA FISCHER Kim McLarins new book explores her own life and a novel of James Baldwin. Bookingmarking Baldwin Kim McLarin, award-winning author of “Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life” and associate professor at Emerson College, explores the James Baldwin novel “Another Country” i...